Isaac R. Trimble

Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (15 May 1802-2 January 1888) was a Major-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a railroad executive after the war.

Biography
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble was born in Culpeper County, Virginia on 15 May 1802, and his family moved to Kentucky shortly after his birth. Trimble graduated from West Point in 1822 with a class rank of 17 out of 42 students, and he became a railroad executive after leaving the US Army in 1832. Trimble was superintendent of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad from 1859 to 1861, and he joined the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. Trimble became a Brigadier-General in August 1861, and he first saw combat during Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862. Trimble was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run, and he was almost forced to have his leg amputated. In January 1863, he was promoted to Major-General, and he was shot in the same leg at the Battle of Gettysburg in July. Trimble was captured by the Union, and his leg was amputated due to his severe wounds. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner, and he resumed engineering work in Baltimore after the war's end in 1865, using an artificial leg. He died in 1888 at the age of 85.